Quotes

Forgiveness, that noblest of all self-denial, is a virtue which he alone who can practise in himself can willingly believe in another.

I don't like being famous - it is like a prison. And driving for Ferrari would make it far worse.

When I was in prison, I was wrapped up in all those deep books. That Tolstoy crap - people shouldn't read that stuff.

Well, I don't think prisons are the answer to everything, obviously.

Nor cell, nor chain, nor dungeon speaks to the murderer like the voice of solitude.

In the halls of justice, the only justice is in the halls.

They were being driven to a prison, through no fault of their own, in all probability for life. In comparison, how much easier it would be to walk to the gallows than to this tomb of living horrors!

To be in prison so long, it's difficult to remember exactly what you did to get there.

Prison makes you a better judge of character. You pick up on people much faster.

Kill a man, and you are an assassin. Kill millions of men, and you are a conqueror. Kill everyone, and you are a God.

The English laws punish vice; the Chinese laws do more, they reward virtue.

You stuff somebody into the American dream, and it becomes a prison.

Every instance of a man's suffering the penalty of the law is an instance of the failure of that penalty in effecting its purpose, which is to deter.

There is no greater punishment of wickedness that that it is dissatisfied with itself and its deeds.

Oh who is that young sinner with the handcuffs on his wrist? And what has he been after that they groan and shake their fists? And wherefore is he wearing such a conscience-stricken air? Oh they're taking him to prison for the colour of his hair.

Nothing can be more abhorrent to democracy than to imprison a person or keep him in prison because he is unpopular. This is really the test of civilization.

I have been studying how I may compare this prison where I live unto the world; Shut up in the prison of their own consciences.

If we look at Houston, which is a very environmentally toxic place, we find that it has one of the highest levels of young men going to prison and also among the highest levels of illiteracy in the country.

I existed in a world that never is - the prison of the mind.

Body is a home, a prison and a grave.

The virtue of justice consists in moderation, as regulated by wisdom.

If it's near dinner-time, the foreman takes out his watch when the jury has retired, and says: "Dear me, gentlemen, ten minutes to five, I declare! I dine at five, gentlemen." "So do I," says everybody else, except two men who ought to have dined at three and seem more than half disposed to stand out in consequence. The foreman smiles, and puts up his watch:--"Well, gentlemen, what do we say, plaintiff or defendant, gentlemen?

No written law has been more binding than unwritten custom supported by popular opinion.

Well does Heaven have care that no man secures happiness by crime.

Three hundred years ago a prisoner condemned to the Tower of London carved on the wall of his cell this sentiment to keep up his spirits during his long imprisonment: “It is not adversity that kills, but the impatience with which we bear adversity.”